Heh, the problem with having a half drafted post on your machine for a few weeks is the industry moves fast!
I had the post pretty much done, went on vacation for a week, and Claude Skills came out in the interim.
That being said Skills are indeed an implementation of the patterns possible with linking, but they are narrower in scope than what's possible even with MCP Resources if they were properly made available to agents (e.g. dynamic construction of context based on environment and/or fetching from remote sources).
I had the post pretty much done, went on vacation for a week, and Claude Skills came out in the interim.
That being said Skills are indeed an implementation of the patterns possible with linking, but they are narrower in scope than what's possible even with MCP Resources if they were properly made available to agents (e.g. dynamic construction of context based on environment and/or fetching from remote sources).